WoRMS name details
original description
Mörch, O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but the name for H. crucigera is likely referring to the verticil spines, which are cross bearing, from feminine Latin noun crux, crucis ‘cross’, with Latin adjectival suffix ger, gera ‘to bear’. [details]
Taxonomy superseded subgenus, now disused (Bastida-Zavala & ten Hove, 2002) [details]
Type locality Puntarenas, Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica Pacific coast (Mörch, 1863 as “oceano pacifico, juxta Puntarenas”), 9.9739° -84.8330° (map estimate)
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